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A man who told a 911 operator he killed his girlfriend and cooked parts of her body later described his actions as being compelled by God, police said Monday. Complete Story...
A couple and their three young children died early Monday when their mobile home caught fire in a dilapidated, rural trailer park south of Houston, authorities and neighbors said.
D.J. Augustin scored 30 points and No. 14 Texas, playing at full strength for the first time this season, rolled to an impressive 81-62 win Saturday over Saint Mary's.
In the middle of a prison cemetery known as Peckerwood Hill, inmates Mack Matthews and George Washington share a common fate.
Damion James had another double-double for No. 14 Texas, scoring a career-high 29 points and grabbing 14 rebounds to lead the Longhorns to a 67-59 victory over TCU on Wednesday.
Texas junior running back Jamaal Charles, who rushed for 1,619 yards this season, announced Wednesday he will leave the Longhorns to enter the NFL draft.
Wisconsin's Michael Flowers hit a long 3-pointer with 2 seconds to play, then stole Texas' inbounds pass and tossed it high in the air to run out the clock, lifting the Badgers to a 67-66 upset of No. 9 Texas on Saturday.
With two amusement parks, the Texas Rangers' recently built baseball stadium and the Dallas Cowboys' $1 billion football stadium on its way, Arlington is transforming itself from an aging suburb to the Lone Star State's playground.
Freshman Kalin Lucas scored a career-high 18 points, including an acrobatic layup to ignite a key first-half run, to lead No. 9 Michigan State to a 78-72 victory over No. 4 Texas on Saturday night.
D.J. Augustin scored 24 points and No. 4 Texas survived its toughest home game this season with a 66-56 victory over Oral Roberts on Tuesday night.
Connor Atchley scored 26 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, and No. 4 Texas fought off pesky Texas State for a 96-81 win Saturday night to stay perfect on the season.
A.J. Abrams, D.J. Augustin and Damion James scored 18 points each to lead No. 4 Texas to an 80-54 win over Rice on Saturday night.
A prison officer's failure to follow procedures created the opportunity for two felons to escape from a work detail and led to the death of a guard, a report on the killing concluded.
Damion James dunked with 8 seconds remaining to help No. 8 Texas upset second-ranked UCLA 63-61 after the Longhorns blew all of a 16-point, first-half lead Sunday in the Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series.
Damion James had 19 points and 10 rebounds and No. 8 Texas ran its record to 6-0 for only the second time in coach Rick Barnes' 10 seasons with a 98-61 win over Texas Southern on Wednesday night.
D.J. Augustin scored 23 points, A.J. Abrams had 21 and No. 15 Texas shot 64 percent from the field in routing No. 7 Tennessee 97-78 in the championship game of the StubHub! Legends Classic on Saturday night.
A.J. Abrams had career bests of 31 points and nine 3-pointers to lead No. 15 Texas to a 102-87 victory over New Mexico State in the semifinals in the StubHub! Legends Classic on Friday night.
Another win over Texas wound up being Texas A&M; coach Dennis Franchione's final game. After his Aggies beat the No. 13 Longhorns 38-30 on Friday night, Franchione resigned, accepting a buyout from the school.
A.J. Abrams scored a career-high 30 points and No. 16 Texas cruised past Division II Arkansas-Monticello, 100-52 on Sunday.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama continued his not-so-subtle criticisms of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, during a quick fundraising jaunt to the Texas capital Saturday.
The first letter, neatly handwritten on lined paper, arrived at the federal courthouse in Dallas nearly a year and a half ago with a simple address: U.S. District Clerk's Office.
A.J. Abrams scored 21 points and No. 16 Texas coasted to a 73-42 victory Friday night over UC Davis, which is playing its first season as a full-fledged Division I program.
D.J. Augustin scored 19 points and No. 16 Texas overcame first-game shooting struggles with stout second-half defense to pull away from Texas-San Antonio for a 58-37 win Monday night.
Colt McCoy passed for four touchdowns, ran for two more and No. 15 Texas scored 24 points in the fourth quarter to hold on for a 59-43 win Saturday over Texas Tech.
residential hopeful Dennis Kucinich and Texas Democratic officials are at loggerheads over whether he must agree to back his party's eventual nominee unconditionally, or can withhold support if the nominee won't renounce war.
A pastor from Texas was scheduled to deliver the sermon Sunday at a church here called the Crossing.
The release of Chatman, 47, added to Dallas County's nationally unmatched number of wrongfully convicted inmates.
From the article: A man killed his girlfriend, then filleted and cooked parts of her body before calling police to tell them what he was doing, authorities said Sunday.
''Gail Gartrell, the sisters' great-aunt, said Saturday that Mr. Said had physically abused the two girls for years. Around Christmas, the girls' mother – Ms. Gartrell's niece – had fled because of Mr.
How should this man get justice for what was done to him? Not a single court official or police officer will lose his job because of what happened to this man.
Texas authorities continued a manhunt today for an Egyptian-born taxi driver accused of murdering his teenage daughters.
Since 2005, federal and state law enforcement officials have known drug smugglers were using fake Texas Department of Transportation vehicles to haul their cargo all over the Lone Star State.
The historic downtown of The Grove, Texas, has been put up for sale with a $1 million minimum starting bid.
The Texas Bush left behind leads the nation in crime, pollution and poverty. It trails the nation in education, quality of life, and the environment. Texas was once the largest state in the nation. Now --thanks to Bush --it is the largest disaster area outside of New Orleans.
A new state law that limits chronic class-dropping in college may sound good on paper, but some college officials and students worry that it might hurt students who need help the most.
A day after a slip-up exposed intimate e-mail exchanges with his executive secretary, Texas' most powerful prosecutor issued a public apology to his family and others.
Texas anti-nuclear activists are rallying their forces to challenge the so-called nuclear renaissance that could see the state become home to the country's first new nuclear power plant project in nearly 30 years.
Getting a tattoo can be a painful proposition, but usually it's just the needle you have to worry about. Two men trying to trace a loaded .357-caliber Magnum as a pattern for a tattoo accidentally shot themselves, the Otero County Sheriff's Department said Monday.
FORT WORTH (CBS 11 News) ― A passenger on a Fort Worth bus says the T. Bus Service discriminated against her religion. Christine Lutz says she was reading her Bible to her children when the bus driver asked her to stop or get off the bus.
He breaks the law by his very presence. He hustles to do hard work many Americans won't, at least not at the low wages he accepts. The American consumer economy depends on him. America as we have known it for generations may not survive him.
At one hundred, MELISSA (MEL) COULTER is a well balanced person, active, intelligent, friendly, popular and a great writer on Newsvine, If you haven't been to her column you should go there and you will learn and get an education.
Customers at strip clubs in Texas are facing a controversial $5-a-head "pole tax" which is intended to pay for sex crime prevention programmes and rape crisis centres.
Today's story in the Washington Post, and headlined on today's MSNBC web site, about New York State's so called 'Kendra's Law', should disturb all Americans due to the invasion of individual rights to privacy it envisions and enacts, as well as the opening of an entirely new Pand …
PLAISTOW, N.H. -- Ron Paul said the decision to exclude him from a debate on Fox News Sunday the weekend before the New Hampshire Primary is proof that the network "is scared" of him.
....She made sure his food was as hot as he wanted, even if it meant he burned his mouth. And she smiled through his demands and curses. The 89-year-old Walter "Buck" Swords obviously appreciated it, leaving the waitress $50,000 and a 2000 Buick when he died....
Texas's governor, Legislature, courts and voters should reassess their addiction to executions.
Okay we are finally working on plans for the VineMeet here in Texas, Spiffie has a great idea, for us all to meet in July during Netrootsnation in July..
This year's death penalty bombshells — a de facto national moratorium, a state abolition and the smallest number of executions in more than a decade — have masked what may be the most significant and lasting development.
As enthusiasm for executions fell elsewhere, more than 60 percent of all U.S. executions took place in Texas this year.
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